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Great Free Fonts via Smashing Magazine: Anivers, Fresco and Gentium

Smashing Magazine’s “Free Fonts of the Month” for this particular month are really, really, really, good. Grab ’em while they’re still up!

Here’s a sample of Anivers, a font created for Smashing Magazine’s first anniversary. It’s been updated for “extended language support, improved glyph shapes and improved metrics and kerning.” Note that only Anivers Regular is free:

Anivers font sample

Here’s Fresco Semi Bold, “just one member of a large and flexible type family by Dutch design legend Fred Smeijers:”

Fresco font sample

And finally, Gentium, designed by Victor Gaultney:

Gentium font sample

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Have You Played Atari’s Founder Today?

A sign that I may have woken up in a parallel universe: Paramount Pictures has snapped up the rights to make a film — tentatively titled Atari — about the life of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Leonardo DiCaprio will play the title role.

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Good Nerdy Listening

Normally, I listen to music while working, but lately, I’ve been listening to podcasts, namely You Look Nice Today, a “journal of emotional hygiene” featuring Merlin Mann and company talking about everything under the sun, and Stackoverflow.com with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky talking about software development and other geek obsessions.

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I Finished Grand Theft Auto IV!

Last week, I finished Grand Theft Auto IV. All in all, I’d have to say that it wasn’t as difficult — and definitely nowhere near as out-and-out throw-your-console-out-the-window frustrating as its predecessor Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This is fine by a casual player like me, who got in a few hours’ playing every week, with one marathon Sunday afternoon. Now it’s time to take the online multiplayer part of the game for a spin.

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Gamasutra’s on Lessons from Atari Games

Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games is a long (23 pages!), thorough but incredibly fascinating look at games from the time when Atari mattered as a videogame company. Back when they were something, they weren’t afraid to bust out of the genres of the time, take chances and come up with some innovative, experimental and sometimes mind-bending games with unique touches, right down to that unmistakable bell sound whenever you inserted a coin into the machine.

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Steve Jobs Keynote This Afternoon!

On the off chance you hadn’t heard, Steve Job’s WWDC Keynote address takes place this afternoon at 1 p.m. Eastern. Silicon Alley Insider will be liveblogging it as will MacRumors. You might also do well to check Summize, who will be working with Twitter to help it through the expected WWDC chatter-fest.

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Rules for Consultants

Chad Myers has put together a list of general consulting wisdom. My favourite rules: “Always Be Solving (problems). It’s better to solve a problem 80% correct and revise the 20% than wait for a 100% plan,” “You can’t win ’em all. Solve what you can in your time and leave things better than how you found them. That’s really all any of us can do,” and “There’s no crying in consulting!“